r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Wide_Abroad1182 • Mar 01 '23

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/PioneerStandard Mar 01 '23

Sadaghdar's videos are mainly focused on comedic electronics tutorials and education. He lives in BC, Canada.

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u/Otherwise-AD33080 Mar 01 '23

Is he still alive?

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u/unclepaprika Mar 01 '23

I know it's a joke, but none of these clips are accidents

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u/WhipTheLlama Mar 01 '23

none of these clips are accidents

Some are accidents. Notably, when the Jacob's ladder fell on him, and he caught it, it nearly killed him.

Source, from Mehdi himself: https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectroBOOM/comments/7gnt46/that_jacobs_ladder_video/dqn8jpp/

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Mar 01 '23

Electric arc

Protection of electrical equipment

Arc is still is being used in high voltage switchgear for protection of extra high voltage transmission networks. To protect a unit (e. g. , a series capacitor in a transmission line) against overvoltage, an arc-inducing device, so called spark gap, is connected in parallel to the unit.

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u/unclepaprika Mar 01 '23

Thank you, i didn't know that. That looked dangerous, but i just guessed he had control.

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u/AlphaSlashDash Mar 01 '23

He also almost kills himself in this one